[Lima shunter]

Am I right in  thinking this model is based on an American Plymouth switcher

[Latest Flying Scotsman tat]

3 hours ago, 97406 said:

Viz comic does a great line in sending up this sort of tackiness, normally based on the Franklin Mint. 

 

As soon as I saw this viz came to mind

Theirs is called danglebury mint, love reading the small print on their ads. I remember one after some mind boggling finance deal it said may the Lord have mercy on my soul, take me down 🤣

[Hornby Trading Statement Published 22 April]

I bet there are a few twitching bottoms in margate now Ashley has a hand in things.  Only a small hand but a hand nonetheless 

[Interesting and inspiring photos from Flickr....]

1 hour ago, montyburns56 said:

 Bold Colliery, on the Friday before the Rocket 150 cavalcades. 23 May 1980 by Nigel Menzies

 

 

 

Never mind those locos look at the cars! Love the Tara green princess with Dunlop denovo wheels 😍 

[LNER Container or wagon found buried in Antwerp]

With the modern day LNER getting involved with this for some reason it would be similar to the parcels company ANC claiming they had a hand in the release of Nelson Mandela! 

[Railway footage in feature films and television...]

On 10/04/2024 at 07:38, ess1uk said:

The video for SmallTown Boy

 

does he change from his Glasgow train at Old Oak Common to get to Paddington?

 

He gets on a 210! Shame no exhaust thrash might have drowned him out  😀

[Dave F's photos - ongoing - more added each day]

Excellent pictures David,  first looks like brand new peppercorn coach

Congratulations on 1100 pages 

[Dave F's photos - ongoing - more added each day]

Morning David 

That last picture is absolutely stunning.  When did Derwenthaugh close?

Looking at the TY signal I assume it was close to low fell and probably had all traces removed by the garden festival 

[Regional Railways DMU workings & formations]

When I was driver on Central trains at Norwich we had a driver bring a 170 from Nottingham,  came down the ECML at 100mph and on changing ends at Ely he thought where the f##k did that come from on seeing a 156 coupled to the rear!

Seemed no one told him. It drove to Norwich with no issues 

[Class 13 hump shunters at Tinsley]

I'd heard of this but didn't know its identity.  I know the slave unit has an air controlled throttle but not sure if the master unit had one. If it did would make driving that 08 quite different to a normal one

[Regional Railways DMU workings & formations]

For a short period in early 90s 14x units were banned from working with 155/6/8 units there was some kind of incident but not sure what but it didn't last long

 

The 151s were mentioned earlier I believe these could also work with 150001/2 when the 150s were new. This because when they were built both classes had PBL air brakes , externally you could see a second air connection on the couplers

The 150s were rebuilt with westcode 3 step brakes as per the rest of the fleet

The two 150s had blanked spaces on the desk where the air train pipe gauges had been.  Bit of a retrograde step really as with PBL a locomotive with a suitable adaptor coupling would have full control of the units brakes

[The Mystery station that has bugged me since September 1988]

1 hour ago, kevsmiththai said:

Where did the nameboards go?

 

Morning Kev 

I seem to remember the name boards being removed so time before it was demolished.  It was mainly switched out for years but think it was probably closed about 2003 it then had the boards removed and stairs. Was demolished a year or so later

I have a feeling the crossover was removed before closure 

[The New Clockwork Orange]

Just now, Arun Sharma said:

Fortunately, they don't have to - They only need to work like trains.

 

I do appreciate that if but bloody ugly

[The New Clockwork Orange]

Horrible looking things, they don't even look like trains

[Spanish Class 14's (D95xx's)]

6 hours ago, jasRMWeb said:

Here are some photos of D 9549 / P 601 0 3911 003 CMZ. They were taken at Redondela, Galicia on Thursday 26th July 1990.  The locos are on a site now occupied by the AVE depot.

 

The photos are scans of slides.

 

I didn't realise Spain used vacuum brakes

[NYMR resident 37264's makeover]

Just now, 6990WitherslackHall said:

It has got its TOPs number on already. unless you mean its old BR number (D6964?).

 

I'll be honest, the BR large logo livery, although it's a good livery, it was looking a bit faded. 

 

Sorry I meant preferred tops , for some reason I have a thing about preferred tops blue. I have quite a few locos in that livery on my layout 

[NYMR resident 37264's makeover]

Cracking job, personally I would have preferred preferred tops numbers and headcodes but that's just my preference.  Good to see its had a good restoration 

[47152 Still Green in 1975]

6 hours ago, Halvarras said:

 

Yes, I'm certain there were a few isolated examples of Classes 20 & 47. 20158 comes to mind (may not be this one but I've definitely seen a photo of one) and I noted 47256 in green with domino panels at Gateshead on 8th May 1977 (in two-tone green as this was some months before its short-lived single-tone repaint).

 

Didn't realise 47256 got repainted in single tone green . What was the idea behind that

 

Strange to see a green loco with domino headcode 

[Lowestoft station and sidings - pictures please]

1 hour ago, kevsmiththai said:

In other news I have added a Great Eastern album to my Flickr channel. This has the higher res scans than I posted here. I've never really got around to uploading my East Anglia stuff but this Lowestoft thread has set me going

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/152010806@N03/albums/72177720315628680

 

Kev

 

 

Evening Kev 

Surprised you haven't got an album for the early Barrow hill galas

[47152 Still Green in 1975]

33 minutes ago, AY Mod said:

 

That was a couple of years later; sadly I couldn't make that year. Best sounding forest car, full stop.

 

Absolutely,  that new one they are producing won't be the same with the audi engine.  Just won't be as angry 

[47152 Still Green in 1975]

2 hours ago, AY Mod said:

 

I was in the grandstand at Highgate that we got turfed out of as it was starting to sink just after the F3000 started.

 

Weekend diversion over.

 

Was that the same event which had the metro super challenge with the 6R4s?

Probably the best sounding motorsport event ever all those V6s within a built up area

 

Anyway getting back on track, did any green loco of any class get the domino stickers in the headcode boxes? 

[Lowestoft station and sidings - pictures please]

The signals in the yard were strange the bracket signal corresponded with the discs on one and two reception . An arm on the bracket took you out on to the main and disc onto the reception.  Also unusual was number 2 was nearest the mainline 

I've used lowestoft as a bit of an influence on my layout where there are houses with railway on both sides of them and the footbridge over sidings and running lines

 

 

[Lowestoft station and sidings - pictures please]

Lowestoft was a busy railway location until comparatively recently.  Its train crew depot stayed open until mid 90s

[The Mystery station that has bugged me since September 1988]

1 hour ago, Reorte said:

The arch over the surviving lines seems to have been replaced with concrete too :(

 

 

It was done a few years back when the route was gauge cleared for 9ft6in containers 

[The Mystery station that has bugged me since September 1988]

53 minutes ago, adb968008 said:

Where is Saxby ?

 

even google maps struggled with that.

 

Between Melton Mowbray and Oakham